diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e3fb385d1..fd0c84af0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -766,7 +766,6 @@
           <regex><pattern>.*.checks.design.InterfaceIsTypeCheck</pattern><branchRate>100</branchRate><lineRate>85</lineRate></regex>
           <regex><pattern>.*.checks.design.MutableExceptionCheck</pattern><branchRate>85</branchRate><lineRate>92</lineRate></regex>
           <regex><pattern>.*.checks.design.OneTopLevelClassCheck</pattern><branchRate>77</branchRate><lineRate>95</lineRate></regex>
-          <regex><pattern>.*.checks.design.ThrowsCountCheck</pattern><branchRate>75</branchRate><lineRate>82</lineRate></regex>
           <regex><pattern>.*.checks.design.VisibilityModifierCheck</pattern><branchRate>95</branchRate><lineRate>95</lineRate></regex>
 
           <regex><pattern>.*.checks.header.AbstractHeaderCheck</pattern><branchRate>85</branchRate><lineRate>85</lineRate></regex>
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/ThrowsCountCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/ThrowsCountCheckTest.java
index 89347487c..685aac6d8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/ThrowsCountCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/ThrowsCountCheckTest.java
@@ -19,15 +19,22 @@
 
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design;
 
+import antlr.CommonHiddenStreamToken;
+
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.BaseCheckTestSupport;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration;
+
 import java.io.File;
 
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
+
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design.ThrowsCountCheck.MSG_KEY;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
 public class ThrowsCountCheckTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
     @Test
@@ -68,4 +75,18 @@ public class ThrowsCountCheckTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
         int[] expected = {TokenTypes.LITERAL_THROWS};
         assertArrayEquals(expected, obj.getRequiredTokens());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWrongTokenType() {
+        ThrowsCountCheck obj = new ThrowsCountCheck();
+        DetailAST ast = new DetailAST();
+        ast.initialize(new CommonHiddenStreamToken(TokenTypes.CLASS_DEF, "class"));
+        try {
+            obj.visitToken(ast);
+            fail();
+        }
+        catch (IllegalStateException e) {
+            assertEquals(ast.toString(), e.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
 }