diff --git a/src/collective/solr/browser/maintenance.py b/src/collective/solr/browser/maintenance.py
index f743ecd..e4fc44c 100644
--- a/src/collective/solr/browser/maintenance.py
+++ b/src/collective/solr/browser/maintenance.py
@@ -233,6 +233,9 @@ class SolrMaintenanceView(BrowserView):
                 obj = catalog_traverse(path)
             except AttributeError:
                 return None
+            except KeyError:
+                # dirty hack, should help ignore broken entries in catalog
+                return None
             return obj
         log('processing %d "unindex" operations next...\n' % len(unindex))
         op = notimeout(lambda uid: conn.delete(id=uid))