diff --git a/tesseract_kinematics/kdl/src/kdl_utils.cpp b/tesseract_kinematics/kdl/src/kdl_utils.cpp
index 31d4df53a69..ff4a47dc22f 100644
--- a/tesseract_kinematics/kdl/src/kdl_utils.cpp
+++ b/tesseract_kinematics/kdl/src/kdl_utils.cpp
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ void KDLToEigen(const KDL::Frame& frame, Eigen::Isometry3d& transform)
 
 void EigenToKDL(const Eigen::Isometry3d& transform, KDL::Frame& frame)
 {
-  frame.Identity();
-
   for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
     frame.p[i] = transform(i, 3);