diff --git a/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs b/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs
index f0a2de8677..e24c63312e 100644
--- a/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/mod.rs
@@ -1434,12 +1434,7 @@ where
                         if let Err((hash, error)) =
                             self.try_make_sync_target_canonical(downloaded_num_hash)
                         {
-                            if !matches!(
-                                error,
-                                CanonicalError::BlockchainTree(
-                                    BlockchainTreeError::BlockHashNotFoundInChain { .. }
-                                )
-                            ) {
+                            if !error.is_block_hash_not_found() {
                                 if error.is_fatal() {
                                     error!(target: "consensus::engine", %error, "Encountered fatal error while making sync target canonical: {:?}, {:?}", error, hash);
                                 } else {
@@ -1572,12 +1567,7 @@ where
                     // if we failed to make the FCU's head canonical, because we don't have that
                     // block yet, then we can try to make the inserted block canonical if we know
                     // it's part of the canonical chain: if it's the safe or the finalized block
-                    if matches!(
-                        err,
-                        CanonicalError::BlockchainTree(
-                            BlockchainTreeError::BlockHashNotFoundInChain { .. }
-                        )
-                    ) {
+                    if err.is_block_hash_not_found() {
                         // if the inserted block is the currently targeted `finalized` or `safe`
                         // block, we will attempt to make them canonical,
                         // because they are also part of the canonical chain and
diff --git a/crates/interfaces/src/blockchain_tree/error.rs b/crates/interfaces/src/blockchain_tree/error.rs
index 4f4261ab6c..e08211a4fe 100644
--- a/crates/interfaces/src/blockchain_tree/error.rs
+++ b/crates/interfaces/src/blockchain_tree/error.rs
@@ -74,6 +74,15 @@ impl CanonicalError {
     pub fn is_fatal(&self) -> bool {
         matches!(self, Self::CanonicalCommit(_) | Self::CanonicalRevert(_))
     }
+
+    /// Returns `true` if the underlying error matches
+    /// [BlockchainTreeError::BlockHashNotFoundInChain].
+    pub fn is_block_hash_not_found(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(
+            self,
+            CanonicalError::BlockchainTree(BlockchainTreeError::BlockHashNotFoundInChain { .. })
+        )
+    }
 }
 
 /// Error thrown when inserting a block failed because the block is considered invalid.