diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 882c3aaab..77695851b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -761,7 +761,6 @@
 
           <regex><pattern>.*.checks.design.InnerTypeLastCheck</pattern><branchRate>100</branchRate><lineRate>93</lineRate></regex>
           <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.VisibilityModifierCheck</pattern><branchRate>95</branchRate><lineRate>95</lineRate></regex>
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/MutableExceptionCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/MutableExceptionCheckTest.java
index 4cb1fdffa..e85a69d82 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/MutableExceptionCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/design/MutableExceptionCheckTest.java
@@ -19,15 +19,20 @@
 
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design;
 
+import antlr.CommonHiddenStreamToken;
+
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.BaseCheckTestSupport;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration;
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
+
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.File;
 
 import static com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design.MutableExceptionCheck.MSG_KEY;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
 public class MutableExceptionCheckTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
     @Test
@@ -67,4 +72,18 @@ public class MutableExceptionCheckTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
         int[] expected = {TokenTypes.CLASS_DEF, TokenTypes.VARIABLE_DEF};
         assertArrayEquals(expected, obj.getRequiredTokens());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWrongTokenType() {
+        MutableExceptionCheck obj = new MutableExceptionCheck();
+        DetailAST ast = new DetailAST();
+        ast.initialize(new CommonHiddenStreamToken(TokenTypes.INTERFACE_DEF, "interface"));
+        try {
+            obj.visitToken(ast);
+            fail();
+        }
+        catch (IllegalStateException e) {
+            //expected
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/design/InputMutableException.java b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/design/InputMutableException.java
index 188d2bfc9..e61ad47df 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/design/InputMutableException.java
+++ b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/design/InputMutableException.java
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ public class InputMutableException {
 
         public class CustomFailure extends ThreadDeath {
             private int errorCode;
+            public void someMethod() {
+                if(true) {
+                    final int i = 0;
+                }
+            } 
         }
     }
 }