Footage of a two-year-old boy helping his twin brother out from underneath a fallen dresser has been shared on social media as a warning to parents to secure their furniture.

The video shows twin brothers Brock and Bowdy Shoff playing on an empty chest of drawers that had not been secured to the wall.

When the toddlers started climbing on the front, putting too much weight on the furniture, it fell over and trapped Brock underneath.

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The video shows Bowdy trying to help his twin brother, eventually pushing the dresser off him.

Parents Ricky and Kayli Shoff, from the state of Utah in the United States, were hesitant about sharing the footage online but did so in order to make other families aware about the dangers of not securing furniture to walls.

"We are so grateful for the bond that these twin brothers share," Mr Shoff's Facebook post read.

The video comes after a series of toddler deaths in the US due to tipping dressers.

Swedish home furnishing retailer Ikea reached a $69 million settlement with three families last year whose children died after dressers fell on them.

In June last year the company recalled 29 million chests of the Malm design across the US and Canada following six deaths over a 13-year period.

None of those chests had been fastened to walls.

Australian customers have been offered free replacements of misplaced tip-over restraints.

Mr Shoff's Facebook post ended with a plea for people to make sure dressers were bolted and secured to walls.