diff --git a/actions/ost-compare-ligand-structures b/actions/ost-compare-ligand-structures
index ee7575218cf7638617f91c89a07870463f1fcb7f..abe20e8495e945042dfd6d6f8d2e141bc519a367 100644
--- a/actions/ost-compare-ligand-structures
+++ b/actions/ost-compare-ligand-structures
@@ -60,8 +60,6 @@ import ost
 from ost import conop
 from ost import io
 from ost.mol.alg import ligand_scoring
-from ost.mol.alg import Molck, MolckSettings
-
 
 
 def _ParseArgs():
@@ -234,8 +232,6 @@ def _LoadStructure(structure_path, format="auto", fault_tolerant=False):
                             f"{structure_path}.")
         format = ext[-1].lower()
 
-    # increase loglevel, as we would pollute the info log with weird stuff
-    ost.PushVerbosityLevel(ost.LogLevel.Error)
     # Load the structure
     if format in ["mmcif", "cif"]:
         entity, seqres = io.LoadMMCIF(structure_path, seqres=True,
@@ -250,22 +246,11 @@ def _LoadStructure(structure_path, format="auto", fault_tolerant=False):
         raise Exception(f"Unknown/ unsupported file extension found for "
                         f"file {structure_path}.")
 
-    # Molck it
-    molck_settings = MolckSettings(rm_unk_atoms=True,
-                                   rm_non_std=False,
-                                   rm_hyd_atoms=True,
-                                   rm_oxt_atoms=False,
-                                   rm_zero_occ_atoms=False,
-                                   colored=False,
-                                   map_nonstd_res=False,
-                                   assign_elem=True)
-    # Cleanup a copy of the structures
-    Molck(entity, conop.GetDefaultLib(), molck_settings)
-    
-    # restore old loglevel and return
-    ost.PopVerbosityLevel()
-    entity.SetName(structure_path)
-    return entity
+    # Remove hydrogens
+    cleaned_entity = ost.mol.CreateEntityFromView(entity.Select("ele != H"),
+                                                  include_exlusive_atoms=False)
+    cleaned_entity.SetName(structure_path)
+    return cleaned_entity
 
 
 def _LoadLigands(ligands):