diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/recon/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/recon/recovery/ReconOmMetadataManagerImpl.java b/hadoop-ozone/recon/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/recon/recovery/ReconOmMetadataManagerImpl.java
index 15fea3574aa7..91cb61369fcd 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/recon/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/recon/recovery/ReconOmMetadataManagerImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/recon/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/recon/recovery/ReconOmMetadataManagerImpl.java
@@ -169,8 +169,16 @@ public List<OmVolumeArgs> listVolumes(String startKey,
     // Unlike in {@link OmMetadataManagerImpl}, the volumes are queried directly
     // from the volume table (not through cache) since Recon does not use
     // Table cache.
+    Table<String, OmVolumeArgs>  volumeTable = getVolumeTable();
+
+    // If the table is not yet initialized, i.e. it is null
+    // Return empty list as response
+    if (volumeTable == null) {
+      return result;
+    }
+
     try (TableIterator<String, ? extends Table.KeyValue<String, OmVolumeArgs>>
-             iterator = getVolumeTable().iterator()) {
+                 iterator = volumeTable.iterator()) {
 
       while (iterator.hasNext() && result.size() < maxKeys) {
         Table.KeyValue<String, OmVolumeArgs> kv = iterator.next();
@@ -296,6 +304,11 @@ private List<OmBucketInfo> listAllBuckets(final int maxNumberOfBuckets)
 
     int currentCount = 0;
     Table<String, OmBucketInfo> bucketTable = getBucketTable();
+    // If the table is not yet initialized, i.e. it is null
+    // Return empty list as response
+    if (bucketTable == null) {
+      return result;
+    }
 
     try (TableIterator<String, ? extends Table.KeyValue<String, OmBucketInfo>>
              iterator = bucketTable.iterator()) {