diff --git a/MuonSpectrometer/MuonValidation/MuonDQA/MuonRawDataMonitoring/RpcRawDataMonitoring/src/RpcLv1RawDataValAlg.cxx b/MuonSpectrometer/MuonValidation/MuonDQA/MuonRawDataMonitoring/RpcRawDataMonitoring/src/RpcLv1RawDataValAlg.cxx
index f0deb97463b0635257dddf50f504c005bba7452f..8176ed24c77bd81b4a368f7a9dd77629bec58c36 100755
--- a/MuonSpectrometer/MuonValidation/MuonDQA/MuonRawDataMonitoring/RpcRawDataMonitoring/src/RpcLv1RawDataValAlg.cxx
+++ b/MuonSpectrometer/MuonValidation/MuonDQA/MuonRawDataMonitoring/RpcRawDataMonitoring/src/RpcLv1RawDataValAlg.cxx
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ StatusCode RpcLv1RawDataValAlg::initialize()
 
 
 StatusCode RpcLv1RawDataValAlg::StoreTriggerType() {
-  const xAOD::EventInfo* eventInfo;
+  const xAOD::EventInfo* eventInfo = nullptr;
   StatusCode sc = StatusCode::SUCCESS;
   sc = m_eventStore->retrieve(eventInfo);
   if ( sc.isFailure() ) {