diff --git a/pkg/kube/utils.go b/pkg/kube/utils.go
index 40eba84db0..6b3b371d8c 100644
--- a/pkg/kube/utils.go
+++ b/pkg/kube/utils.go
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kanisterio/errkit"
 	osversioned "github.com/openshift/client-go/apps/clientset/versioned"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 
 	"github.com/kanisterio/kanister/pkg/field"
@@ -195,3 +197,14 @@ func AddLabelsToPodOptionsFromContext(
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// uidInOwnerRefs returns true if one of the ownerReferences of an object matches the
+// provided UID.
+func uidInOwnerRefs(ownerReferences []metav1.OwnerReference, uid types.UID) bool {
+	for _, ownerRef := range ownerReferences {
+		if ownerRef.UID == uid {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/pkg/kube/workload.go b/pkg/kube/workload.go
index eaf054b3ec..4d6a2d2923 100644
--- a/pkg/kube/workload.go
+++ b/pkg/kube/workload.go
@@ -293,14 +293,9 @@ func FetchReplicationController(cli kubernetes.Interface, namespace string, uid
 	}
 
 	for _, rc := range repCtrls.Items {
-		if len(rc.OwnerReferences) != 1 {
+		if !uidInOwnerRefs(rc.OwnerReferences, uid) {
 			continue
 		}
-
-		if rc.OwnerReferences[0].UID != uid {
-			continue
-		}
-
 		if rc.Annotations[ReplicationControllerRevisionAnnotation] != revision {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -319,12 +314,7 @@ func FetchReplicaSet(cli kubernetes.Interface, namespace string, uid types.UID,
 		return nil, errkit.Wrap(err, "Could not list ReplicaSets")
 	}
 	for _, rs := range rss.Items {
-		// We ignore ReplicaSets without a single owner.
-		if len(rs.OwnerReferences) != 1 {
-			continue
-		}
-		// We ignore ReplicaSets owned by other deployments.
-		if rs.OwnerReferences[0].UID != uid {
+		if !uidInOwnerRefs(rs.OwnerReferences, uid) {
 			continue
 		}
 		// We ignore older ReplicaSets
@@ -344,8 +334,7 @@ func FetchPods(cli kubernetes.Interface, namespace string, uid types.UID) (runni
 		return nil, nil, errkit.Wrap(err, "Could not list Pods")
 	}
 	for _, pod := range pods.Items {
-		if len(pod.OwnerReferences) != 1 ||
-			pod.OwnerReferences[0].UID != uid {
+		if !uidInOwnerRefs(pod.OwnerReferences, uid) {
 			continue
 		}
 		if pod.Status.Phase != corev1.PodRunning {