diff --git a/rewrite-core/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/FindParseFailures.java b/rewrite-core/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/FindParseFailures.java
index 8dcc2c3294a..cb954922dae 100644
--- a/rewrite-core/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/FindParseFailures.java
+++ b/rewrite-core/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/FindParseFailures.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 import org.openrewrite.marker.Markup;
 import org.openrewrite.table.ParseFailures;
 
+import java.util.Objects;
+
 @Value
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 public class FindParseFailures extends Recipe {
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ public TreeVisitor<?, ExecutionContext> getVisitor() {
             public Tree postVisit(Tree tree, ExecutionContext ctx) {
                 return tree.getMarkers().findFirst(ParseExceptionResult.class)
                         .map(exceptionResult -> {
-                            if (parserType != null && !exceptionResult.getParserType().equals(parserType)) {
+                            if (parserType != null && !Objects.equals(exceptionResult.getParserType(), parserType)) {
                                 return tree;
                             }