diff --git a/integrations/snowflake/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/snowflake/snowflake_table_retriever.py b/integrations/snowflake/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/snowflake/snowflake_table_retriever.py
index 4089b88f6..3cbad3c9d 100644
--- a/integrations/snowflake/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/snowflake/snowflake_table_retriever.py
+++ b/integrations/snowflake/src/haystack_integrations/components/retrievers/snowflake/snowflake_table_retriever.py
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ def run(self, query: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         if not query:
             logger.error("Provide a valid SQL query.")
             return {
-                "dataframe": pd.DataFrame,
+                "dataframe": pd.DataFrame(),
                 "table": "",
             }
         else: