A Tamaqua man faces multiple charges after detonating a firework mortar inside a steel cigarette receptacle outside a borough home on July 4.

Adam Basham, 37, was injured in the blast that sent shrapnel flying in a 20-foot radius in the 200 block of Cedar Street, ripping a large section of flesh off his inner thigh and causing hemorrhaging.

Police controlled the bleeding with a tourniquet, helped load Basham into an ambulance and he was flown to St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem for treatment.

Witnesses told police that Basham stole the cigarette receptacle from outside of Mundy’s Pub, also on Cedar Street, and placed the mortar inside causing a loud explosion.

The explosion sent steel shrapnel flying from just off the sidewalk of an occupied home at 250 Cedar St., and in an area with multiple people, homes and vehicles were present. The shrapnel damaged a door on a home across the street at 251 Cedar St., causing $500 damage, court papers said.

A 6-inch by 4-inch piece of shrapnel was removed from Basham’s wound during treatment, police said.

Officers followed a blood trail from where the explosive went off, outside an occupied home to Mundy’s Pub, where 911 was contacted, court papers said.

Basham was charged with arson endangering property, reckless burning, risking catastrophe and criminal mischief in the pipe bomb incident.

District Judge Stephen Bayer issued an arrest warrant for Basham on Aug. 11, and Tamaqua police observed him walking west on East Broad Street on Wednesday, when he was taken into custody.

He was arraigned by District Judge A.J. Serina in Orwigsburg via videoconference on the arson and related charges on Thursday. Bail was set at $100,000 and he was committed to the Schuylkill County prison in Pottsville.

Basham was also arraigned on charges of flight to avoid apprehension by Serina, related to multiple warrants. Basham was wanted for failure to appear in district court in Maryland in 2013, and also out of Luzerne County.

Bail on the flight charges was set at $50,000.