diff --git a/src/accelerate/utils/other.py b/src/accelerate/utils/other.py
index 8a518519e44..4eaa89f9603 100644
--- a/src/accelerate/utils/other.py
+++ b/src/accelerate/utils/other.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
-from packaging import version
 from packaging.version import Version
 from safetensors.torch import save_file as safe_save_file
 
@@ -216,7 +215,7 @@ def save(obj, f, save_on_each_node: bool = False, safe_serialization: bool = Fal
 
 # The following are considered "safe" globals to reconstruct various types of objects when using `weights_only=True`
 # These should be added and then removed after loading in the file
-np_core = np._core if version.parse(np.__version__) >= version.parse("2.0.0") else np.core
+np_core = np._core if Version(np.__version__) >= Version("2.0.0") else np.core
 TORCH_SAFE_GLOBALS = [
     # numpy arrays are just numbers, not objects, so we can reconstruct them safely
     np_core.multiarray._reconstruct,